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General Category => Trump Legal Investigations => Topic started by: mystery-ak on October 18, 2017, 01:57:44 pm
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Trey Gowdy: Samantha Power testified that intel officials made 'unmasking' requests in her name
by Pete Kasperowicz | Oct 17, 2017, 10:07 PM
House Oversight & Government Reform Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy said Tuesday that President Obama's former United Nations ambassador has testified that not all of the "unmasking" requests made in her name were directed by her.
Samantha Power testified in Gowdy's committee last week, and Fox News reported weeks before her appearance that she was thought to have made as many as 260 requests to "unmask" Americans caught up in the surveillance of non-U.S. citizens.
But Tuesday evening, Gowdy told Fox News that Power told his committee that she was not the official requesting that unmasking in every case.
more
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trey-gowdy-samantha-power-testified-that-intel-officials-made-unmasking-requests-in-her-name/article/2637844
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Obama’s UN Ambassador Claims Someone Else Made Unmasking Requests In Her Name [VIDEO]
Daily Caller, Oct 17, 2017, Chuck Ross
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Gowdy did not say whether Power provided any information about how someone else may have made unmasking requests in her name. But the Republican said that the issue needs to be cleared up soon, partially because Congress is weighing reauthorization of a program that deals with intelligence community unmasking.
“We’ve got to get to the bottom of that,” Gowdy said.
“If there is someone else making requests on behalf of a principal in the intelligence community we need to know that because we’re getting ready to reauthorize a program that also has a masking component to it,” he added, referring to Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
More: http://dailycaller.com/2017/10/17/obamas-un-ambassador-claims-someone-else-made-unmasking-requests-in-her-name-video/
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If there is someone else making requests on behalf of a principal in the intelligence community we need to know that because we’re getting ready to reauthorize a program that also has a masking component to it,”
Ah, no, Trey. We need to know who broke the law.
Gowdy's turned out to be a real disappointment.